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ASIA-PACIFIC AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH British Romanticism in Asia The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia Edited by Alex Watson Laurence Williams Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series Editors Shun-liang Chao National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan Steve Clark University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Tristanne Connolly St. Jerome’s University Waterloo, ON, Canada Alex Watson Nagoya University Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Laurence Williams Sophia University Tokyo, Japan The Palgrave Asia-Pacific and Literature in English series presents excit- ing and innovative academic research on Asia-Pacific interactions with Anglophone literary tradition. Focusing on works from the voyages of Captain Cook to the early twentieth century, it also considers previous encounters in the early modern period, as well as reception history con- tinuing to the present day. Encompassing China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and Australasia, monographs and essay collections in this series display the complexity, richness and global influence of Asia-Pacific responses to English literature, focusing on works in English but also considering those from other linguistic traditions. The series addresses the imperial and colonial origins of English language and literature in the region, and highlights other forms of reciprocal encounter, circulation, and mutual transformation, as part of an interdependent global history. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16211 Alex Watson · Laurence Williams Editors British Romanticism in Asia The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia Editors Alex Watson Laurence Williams Nagoya University Sophia University Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2524-7638 ISSN 2524-7646 (electronic) Asia-Pacific and Literature in English ISBN 978-981-13-3000-1 ISBN 978-981-13-3001-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3001-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962029 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Our thanks also go to the many colleagues in Japan and abroad who have offered feedback on this project or, more generally, helped to shape our thinking about Romanticism in Asia. These include: Masahiko Abe, Ros Ballaster, Shun-liang Chao, David Chandler, Fuhito Endo, Nikki Hessell, Li-hsin Hsu, Julia Kuehn, Tashiro Naomichi, Barnaby Ralph, Peter Sabor, Ve-Yin Tee, and Kazuhisa Takahashi. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Sara Crowley-Vigneau and Connie Li at Palgrave, and to the administrative and library staff at Nagoya University, Sophia University, and the University of Tokyo. The editing of this book was generously supported by a “Wakate B” grant (15K16696) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. vii n t ote on the ext The full names of East Asian authors are in general written with family names first (e.g. Xu Zhimo, Natsume Sōseki). However, following crit- ical convention, certain writers are referred to by their adopted literary first names (e.g. Tsubouchi Shōyō is referred to as Shōyō). All writers are listed by family name in bibliographies and the index. Quotations and names from Asian languages are romanized according to standard modern conventions for the language and region. A macron is used for long vowels in Japanese, except where the word is commonly written in English without (e.g. Tokyo, Kyoto). ix c ontents 1 British Romanticism in Asia, 1820–1950: Modernity, Tradition, and Transformation in India and East Asia 1 Alex Watson and Laurence Williams Part I Romanticism in Asia: Cross-Cultural Networks 2 The News from India: Emma Roberts and the Construction of Late Romanticism 39 Mary Ellis Gibson 3 Flora Japonica: Linnaean Connections Between Britain and Japan During the Romantic Period 67 Ayako Wada 4 An “Exot” Teacher of Romanticism in Japan: Lafcadio Hearn and the Literature of the Ghostly 93 Kaz Oishi 5 On William Empson’s Romantic Legacy in China 119 Lu Jin xi xii CONTENTS Part II Colonialism and Resistance 6 Romanticism in Colonial Korea: Coterie Literary Journals and the Emergence of Modern Poetry in the Early 1920s 145 Kyung-Sook Shin 7 “Truth in Beauty and Beauty in Truth”: Rabindranath Tagore’s Appropriation of John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) 169 Alex Watson 8 Romantic, Rebel, and Reactionary: The Metamorphosis of Byron in Twentieth-Century China 191 Ou Li Part III Nature, Aesthetics, and Translation 9 Nature and the Natural: Translating Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1807/15) into Chinese 221 Ting Guo 10 “With Sidewise Crab-Walk Western Writing”: Tradition and Modernity in Shimazaki Tōson and Natsume Sōseki 249 Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey 11 Of Ponds, Lakes, and the Sea: Shōyō, Shakespeare, and Romanticism 273 Daniel Gallimore Part IV Bodies and the Cosmos 12 Nogami Yaeko’s Adaptations of Austen Novels: Allegorizing Women’s Bodies 295 Kimiyo Ogawa
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